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2012 Year in Review

2012 was a really great year, both in terms of my homebrewing hobby and personally. I brewed 12 batches and had my keezer stocked all year long. Also, outside of brewing, I got married in July to my beautiful wife Renee here in Portland.

2012 I brewed more batches that I ever have and tried quite a few different styles. I also tackled working with brewing salts which I feel have improved my beers over the last year. I have set a goal to make 18 batches for next year so people better be coming over for growler fills. Here’s a list of the beers I made in 2012.

I’m also thinking of entering a few competitions next year to get some unbiased feed back on my beers. There are a few competitions locally that I want to enter as we’ll as the national competition, if I can get my entry in before it closes. I’m also thinking of starting to upgrade my brewery with a brewing stand of some sort. I’m inheriting 3 converted kegs from my brother so I think I’m going to try to do some 10 gallon batches as well. So there definitely some big stuff on the horizon at the Crow’s Nest in 2013! Cheers!